AAN News
The Future of Online Video Advertisingnew
Online Video Insider |
12-20-2007 9:47 am |
Industry News
Tips for Successful 'Instant Message' Campaignsnew
iMediaConnection |
12-20-2007 9:38 am |
Industry News
Advertising: Local Papers' Web Scramblenew
The Wall Street Journal |
12-18-2007 10:35 pm |
Industry News
Publishers Say Magazine Sites are More Effective Than Digital Editionsnew
Mediaweek |
12-18-2007 9:01 am |
Industry News
Village Voice Media Breaks Into Top Ten Newspaper Sites In U.S.
Backpage.com Ranked As 2nd Largest Free Classified Site In U.S.
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Village Voice Media Press Release |
12-18-2007 8:52 am |
Press Releases
Shepherd Express and Wehaa.com Announce Exclusive Partnership
The independent alternative weekly newspaper, Shepherd Express, formed an exclusive partnership with Wehaa.com to better serve its online readers with a completely interactive and searchable digital reproduction of weekly issues.
(FULL STORY)
Shepherd Express Press Release |
12-18-2007 8:39 am |
Press Releases
Two Veteran Staffers to Leave AAN
AAN director of sales and marketing Roxanne Cooper and her assistant,
Tiffany Kildale, resigned last week after accepting new positions with
different employers. Cooper will be leaving AAN in February to take over as
associate publisher of the Philadelphia City Paper, and Kildale departs next
month to assume the position of meeting coordinator at the Chemical
Producers & Distributors Association in Washington, D.C.
(FULL STORY)
AAN |
12-17-2007 5:28 pm |
Association News
Ben Eason Weighs in on the State of Creative Loafingnew
"While it is easy to blame mean and nasty CEOs for trimming budgets, the fact is that our journalism, advertising and our content needs to be and are being re-conceived," Creative Loafing CEO Ben Eason says in a memo to employees leaked to Poynter's Jim Romenesko. In the memo, Eason tells his employees that most of the post-merger integration -- including staffing decisions -- of the Chicago Reader and Washington City Paper into the CL family is complete. "I'm very pleased with how the new company has come together," he says. "We are positioned well to take advantage of the future."
Romenesko Memos |
12-17-2007 10:08 am |
Industry News
Oklahoma Gazette Loses Power, Publishes With Help of Generator
The paper lost electricity early on Monday, Dec. 10, just hours before the always-hectic press day. But this week's issue still came out, thanks to the hard work of Gazette employees ... and a generator. "We were first in line for a [generator] rental but weren't fully functional until nine hours later," associate publisher Jeffri-Lynn Dyer says. "We aren't returning it, though. With the next storm coming, we might need it next press day!" According to the latest forecast, a new storm is expected to bring two to four inches of snow heading into this weekend. The Gazette's rented generator is on standby in the paper's parking lot.
(FULL STORY)
Oklahoma Gazette Press Release |
12-14-2007 4:30 pm |
Industry News
Village Voice Media Web Traffic Up 127 Pecent From Last Yearnew
In the first year-over-year comparisons using its
monthly chart of the most popular newspaper websites, Editor & Publisher reports that Village Voice Media grew its traffic 127 percent from Nov. 2006 to Nov. 2007. Over the same period of time, total minutes spent on the company's sites increased by 89 percent. VVM's network of sites ranked 10th in traffic last month, with a total of 2,774,000 unique visitors, according to E&P.
Editor & Publisher |
12-14-2007 8:36 am |
Industry News
Phoenix New Times Drops Challenge of Law on Publishing Addressesnew
The paper has dropped its lawsuit asking a federal judge to declare the law that makes it a crime to publish the addresses of certain people on the internet unconstitutional, the Arizona Business Gazette reports. The statute was the one that began the recent grand-jury investigation of New Times and the arrests and controversy that followed. Since the threat of prosecution against the paper had been dropped, "it made no sense to tilt at windmills," Village Voice Media executive editor Michael Lacey tells the Gazette. However, since the case was dismissed "without prejudice," the paper could reinstate its case if there is any subsequent investigation. Lacey says he would hope all the publicity surrounding the case would convince the county attorney not to try to enforce that law against New Times or any other publication.
The Arizona Business Gazette |
12-14-2007 8:29 am |
Legal News
Mobile Ad Revenues Not Growing as Fast as Expectednew
BusinessWeek |
12-14-2007 11:47 am |
Industry News
Daily's Motion to Delay Trial Against Santa Barbara Independent Deniednew
Santa Barbara Independent |
12-14-2007 11:06 am |
Legal News
Is the Alt-Weekly Market for Comics and Illustration Drying Up?new
"If you stop and think about it, it's hard to think of anyone who's broken out of that once-vital corner of the comics world in a dozen years," writes the Comics Reporter. Reacting to the news that Washington City Paper will stop using freelancer Robert Ullman to illustrate the Savage Love column, the Reporter wonders if the alt-weekly market for illustrators, cartoonists, and comic artists has "begun its final decline" as papers have to focus more on bottom-line pressures. "I think that's the way it's trending, definitely, but I'm not ready to pull a sheet over the corpse quite yet," Ullman says. "I don't know, I would think that with all the conglomeration that's going on with alt-weeklies these days, that there'd be more money for things like illustration, not less."
The Comics Reporter |
12-13-2007 9:49 am |
Industry News
Web 2.0's Year-in-Reviewnew
CNET News |
12-13-2007 3:13 pm |
Industry News
